Boasters Quotes:

Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

- Eliza Haywood

source: Eliza Haywood (2004). “Fantomina and Other Works”, p.163, Broadview Press

topic: Boasters, Boast

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

- Theophrastus

topic: Doe, Boasters, Pretension

Least doers are the greatest boasters.

- William Gurnall

topic: Doers, Boasters

Those who constantly try to impress others will quickly depress themselves.

- Lysa TerKeurst

topic: Depressing, Trying, Impress, Boasters

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Wise, Foolish Man, Fools And Foolishness

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.2, Harvard University Press

topic: Life, Men, Faces, Boasters, Buffoons

Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.

- Mary Renault

topic: Horse, Heart, Love Is, Boasters

Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for the most part hinting at things and leaving a great deal to be understood. They frequently exaggerate with the aim of extolling themselves and diminishing the status of others. They are boasters and threateners and given to bombastic self-dramatization, and yet they are quick of mind and with good natural ability for learning.

- Diodorus Siculus

topic: Self, Voice, Leaving, Celts, Bombastic

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.58, Harvard University Press

topic: Power, Envy, May, Boasters, Human Power

What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu? Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]

- Horace

topic: Mountain, Ridiculous, Born, Boasters